Perhaps I'd remembered it wrongly".
Perhaps in reflex I remembered the sensation I'd had the first night we slept together, thinking how beautiful she was, how from every angle and in every light she was flawless, like some kind of figurine.
As a teenager I had been in a room similar to this, or perhaps the room I remembered was not a real room but only my personality, the viewing booth from which I look out on life.
So if we all know it, Team USA certainly know it, and that must be the message being sent loud and clear by their head coach Katey Stone to her players...or perhaps not: I remember that too.
Perhaps, but I remember interviewing Birmingham's head of libraries, Brian Gambles, in 2010 when he showed me a chunk of concrete that had fallen from the library as evidence for the need to demolish it.
Perhaps -- I remember António Lobo Antunes asserting something close to this idea -- that's the greatest quality you find in a book.
Perhaps I was remembering Sarita Subercaseaux's daughter, a daughter who as well as being the spitting image of her mother had followed in her footsteps.
Perhaps I am remembering it through rose-tinted glasses, but my memory of the short journey from my hotel to the main park is of smiling volunteers noisily greeting fans who were wearing yellow shirts and waving Brazilian flags, creating a wonderful, welcoming atmosphere, full of colour and positive energy.
They would recall all of this, perhaps not as clearly as I remembered those first months, but nevertheless they would remember.
And in Germany it became apparent to a degree that was perhaps unparalleled…" I remember a few debates in Iran, I say, and his determination to always argue, in all cases, for empathy over judgment.
